introduction: boron possesses widespread properties and is important for human and animal nutrition. since boron is rapidly bioavailable, the objective of the present study was to determine whether acute (hourly or daily), and weekly supplementationcould have any significant biological effects on the synthesis of steroids as well as inflammatory biomarkers. methods: eight male volunteers partic...

patients and methods in total, 98 samples in four groups (hiv-positive and hiv-negative persons with and without oc) were obtained from the oral cavities and cultured on sabouraud’s dextrose agar and chromagar. also blood samples were obtained to assess plasma level of ifn-γ, il-4, il-6 and il-17 using elisa technique. background cell-mediated immunity (cmi) by cd4 + th (t helper)-type cells is...

diverse studies suggest that interleukin-6 (il6), as a member of cytokines family, has a major role in inflammatory processes of airways and lungs. in this study, an attempt was made to determine the serum level of il6 in sulfur mustard (sm) injured patients and its comparison with controls. the measured il6 mean level in patients with chemical injuries (0.76±0.3 ng/ml) was significantly higher...

AIM OF THE STUDY To investigate the role of 8 cytokines and their correlation with clinical characteristics in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in Han Chinese population by detecting their serum levels using the multiplex fluorescent microsphere method. MATERIAL AND METHODS Serum was separated from 79 patients with SLE and 40 healthy controls. The serum cytokine detection was conducted acco...

Background: The cytokines have a major role in the inflammatory response to surgery and trauma. They have local effects of mediating and maintaining the inflammatory response to tissue injury, and also initiate some of the systemic changes which occur. IL-6 is one of the above mentioned cytokines, but it is not clear whether the duration of trauma or surgery has some effect on IL-6 level, so th...

The emerging SARS-CoV-2 (2019-nCoV) is still following the increasing trend of infection worldwide with an elderly male predominance. Studies reported that majority patients COVID-19 suffer from severe testosterone deficiency and are likely to die coronavirus mainly due a less effective immune response high level pro-inflammatory cytokines, condition called cytokine storm. Testosterone (a stero...